manifold \MAN-uh-fohld\, adjective:
1. Of many kinds; numerous and varied: manifold duties.noun:
2. Having numerous different parts, elements, features, forms, etc.: a manifold program for social reform.
1. Something having many different parts or features.verb:
2. A copy or facsimile, as of something written, such as is made by manifolding
1. To make copies of, as with carbon paper.Manifold comes from the Old English word monigfald meaning "varied in appearance." The English suffix -fold originally meant "of so many parts."
political schadenfreude
- The pleasure experienced when a member of an opposed political party is experiencing embarassment or disfunction.
History
- Ferdinand Magellan: explorer set sail from southern Spain to circumnavigate the globe (1519)
- Victor Emmanuel II: seized the Papal States from the French; later he became the first king of modern Italy (1870)
- civil rights: Mississippi governor Ross Barnett personally blocked the entrance of African-American James Meredith to the University of Mississippi; Meredith did end up attending (1962)
- Battle of the Sexes tennis match: Billie Jean King won against Bobby Riggs, who had said women couldn't stand the pressure of the game; 30,000 attended and millions watched on TV (1973)
Birthdays
- Upton Sinclair 1878
- Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton 1890
- Chuck Dressen 1898
- Elliot Nugent 1899
- Peg Phillips 1918
- Gogi Grant 1924
- James Galanos 1924
- Rachel Roberts 1927
- Johnny Dankworth 1927
- Donald A. Hall 1928
- Dr. Joyce Brothers 1928
- Anne Meara 1929
- Peter Palmer 1931
- Sophia Loren 1934
- John (Chuck) Panozzo (Styx) 1947
- Guy LaFleur 1951
- Charlene Elizabeth Brinkeman (aka Brinke Stevens) 1954
- Peter White 1954
- Betsy Brantley 1955
- Gary Cole 1957
- Alannah Currie (Thompson Twins) 1957
- Crispin Glover 1964
- Kristen Johnston 1965
- Gunnar Nelson 1967
- Matthew Nelson 1967
- Ben Shepherd (Soundgarden) 1968
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